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bed to Jerom, and that of the Decretal "Epistlesby Riculphus Bishop of Mayence . But what mon-strous Inhumanity is it, to charge the Faults of twoImpostors, on the whole Body of the Orthodox ;especially considering that the Orthodox are the veryMen who have detected and censur’d these Forge-ries, and have supplied our Author with all he hasto lay, as to the Spurioufnefs of the Prologue of St.'Jerom. An Affair which he himself is so far fromunderstanding, that he has not been able to justifythe Objections of the Learned on his own Side ofthe Question, against the Answers of the excellentMr. Martin, who thinks the Prologue may yet bedefended as genuine.

Fhe Orthodox , their Ignorance . The Proofs ofthis Point are two; first, the Censure passed on theCouncil of Nice , by Sabinus Bishop of Heraclea ,i. e. that excepting the Emperor and EuJ'ebiusPamphilus, they were a Set of illiterate simpleCreatures, that understood nothing. But first, thisis the Censure of an Enemy; on which no Man ofCandour would build so positive a Charge. Se-condly, it includes the Arian, as well as the Or-thodox Party in that Council , tho’ applied by theIndex-maker to the former only. Thirdly, Theknown Characters of many Persons in the Synod ofNice, enable us flatly to contradict the Censure ofSabinus. The great Ho/ius, Bishop of Corduba ,who presided in that Assembly, Marcellus of An-cyra, and the goody tho' much envied Athanafius,are glaring Exceptions to his general Charge. Theother Proof of Ignorance in the Orthodox , is theRemark of Balufius concerning that stupendousIgnorance , which seiz’d the Bijhops as well as the